In the 24 days Kamala Harris has spent as first de facto and then the definitive Democratic presidential nominee since President Joe Biden withdrew from reelection, the vice president has sat down for zero interviews and publicly spoken to the press for a total of 70 seconds. During that minute-long gaggle after a Michigan rally last week, Harris said she hoped to schedule, maybe, a single interview by the end of the month. After four years of Democrats lambasting former President Donald Trump as an existential threat to our fragile democratic experiment, the press seems positively indifferent to the notion that a candidate who has not received a single national primary vote in either 2020 or 2024 is heading to a presidential election without even one on-the-record interview with one of its own.

In other words, Harris knows all she has to do is ride out the shortest campaign in modern history and that the media will evidently cover for her.